Add info on tile layers & fair use somewhere, allow to add own tile provider
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enhancement
feature: 🗺 map
- Dominant language
- JavaScript
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Description
As far as I know, all the tile providers we have are kind of "fair use", that is if you have a big instance and use it a lot you should actually not use them and add your own tile provider. Right?
We should probably:
- Clarify this info about the tile servers and thank them somewhere
- Link how to add a custom Mapbox/other provider url for tile layer (we only have that for routing atm)
- Link an easy guide how to host your own tile server, probably with https://openmaptiles.org ?
What do you think @nextcloud/maps?
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- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reading the existing guidance for routing provider URLs, then locate where tile servers and tile layers are documented or configured. Done means explaining fair-use expectations, crediting providers, documenting custom Mapbox or other tile URLs, and linking an easy guide to hosting a tile server.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Domain
- documentation, web-dev
- Issue type
- Documentation
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 38/100